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Pedro

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  1. It is Jeff Kenna! I totally forgot he was still there and don't remember him still being around until 2002. Next one, which playing member of the 1995 title winning squad retired from professional football last ? Again, no Googling the squad.
  2. Sorry, to clarify I mean to leave Rovers ( ie. continuous service since the Premier League win).
  3. I am colour blind and it was a nightmare - but for the shorts I couldn't tell the difference. I don't think they consider the likes of us tbh - which surprises me. Also, that pink winter ball a few years back was bad, as bad as the orange one for me.
  4. Me neither to be honest. I don't think it was a lot really.
  5. He signed or blooded a sizeable amount of our promotion side and our future marquee signing ? Gallagher.
  6. When I first joined I was constantly accused of being a Venky plant ? I can't remember who the main accuser was, but it was as funny as it was offensive!
  7. All the Milan games seemed dank and foggy and the pitches were like cattle fields.
  8. I just stumbled across something that I'd forgotten and it surprised me. Who was the last member of the Premier League winning team to leave Rovers or retire? Bonus point for the year. No Googling - you'll only be cheating yourself ?
  9. No promotion under Mowbray. He just doesn't see or do the obvious for massive chunks of the season.
  10. I would refer to him as Jonty tbh - I used to go to all the Rovers reserve games at Springfield Park (Wigan), Preston and somewhere else that my aging mind won't let me remember. We called him Jonty then, everybody would (this was back in the days when both him and Damien Duff would either be playing or scoffing pies in the stands!)
  11. Not regarding Mani (to me personally) but there are a select few on here who see right past every valid point that supporters like us have shared. Drop Bennett Play Nyambe Keep a settled starting 11 Push higher up the pitch with more intensity Don't let full backs stand off the wingers and invite crosses Play players in their proper positions Sign a left back Don't play strikers on the wing Be more adventurous and have more intensity at home Certain posters/fans have gone to great lengths with their waffling and arse licking to make us out to be negative, no-nothings and that we should simply 'trust Mowbray' etc. When we win or go on a decent run, these same posters laud it up and make us out to be wrong or idiots...whilst skirting over the facts that we win when the manager cottons-on to the basics and does a large selection of the above advice. But still, we know nothing and our opinions are just lunacy ? They see single digits OUTSIDE of the playoffs as an achievement, share a love for form tables and see right past the only one that matters (even though their messiah now says they mean nothing too)...it'll be interesting to see if those are posted up as we are now three games deep into another winless run - coincidentally when the team gets tinkered with (admittedly, both needlessly and a result of a suspension) I think, the form table may gather dust quite quickly. These same fans will, in time, look back on this season as the massive missed opportunity it will pan out to be. Whilst it suits the agenda that we are just a plucky little League One side establishing ourself with the bigger boys , keeping powder dry, not judging the manager after 3 transfer windows, seeing what the manager is 'trying to achive' and simply 'getting behind the lads ffs' etc. - surely, in hindsight, they will eventually know they were talking bollocks. Anyway, credit to Mowbray for when he switches on his common sense, damn him when he reverts to type and self-destructs.
  12. I really like him and rate him. Although I think the passing side of his game is quite weak but improving. On a bad day, both him and Johnson are really wasteful with the ball - he has the genuine excuse of him learning his trade. Can't fault Travis effort though- that's a chunk of the reason why he'll go on to better things.
  13. Crazy how Andy Cole only got 10 caps in his career. Class player. There were some excellent English strikers back then though.
  14. Be fair - he was going out on loan though. But for Smallwood's red he wouldn't have been in the team and Mowbray did initially play him right back (he likes a square peg in a round hole, often a young one too). The fans have nothing to do with it. I must say, if the rest of the players left everything on the pitch like he does, we'd have far more points.
  15. It is a genuine question. Do you go - yes or no? I don't refuse to see it - I mentioned on the night we pass thirty times - all pointlessly. All needlessly. Nobody has said Stoke were shit. Stop making stuff up.
  16. If you piss about knocking a dozen passes to feet in your own half, you are going to have a decent percentage even when you needlessly give the ball back when crossing the halfway line. It is a terrible trait of our game and yesterday especially, our passing was utter shit. Genuine question though, do you go to games or repeat what Tony says in interviews and check out Opta? Because I get tired of this more possession and dominating nonsense. Possession is not dominating a game and possession does not equate to results. It isn't a badge of honour either - goals and points are. Also, watch that first half back and tell me that Stoke didn't get a load of dangerous balls across our goal. They did. The half died out and other than a feeble Armstrong attempt and a good effort by Gally - it was a bore-fest until 80mins. Then we stepped up half a gear but it was too little, too late.
  17. "You should know" - sorry oh mighty and wise one. Stoke didn't need to break a sweat - fact. They weren't great but we certainly didn't control the game (is this a Tony soundbite or something? It sounds like one) - Stoke got cross after cross into the box first half, straight across our six yard box and missed some real sitters - that isn't controlling the game. Second half, we were really lethargic. Shit in fact. Slow with the ball, wasteful with the passing and popped a number of pathetic shots at goal. Stoke were happy with the draw and delighted to watch us wind the clock down - yet again and for us to pass along our box or the halfway line whilst they ambled back into position. No urgency at all. We were bad and they weren't masterful.
  18. They didn't need to defend well because we were so slow and gave possession back time after time. The keeper was worked once by Gallagher on that 1 on 1, the rest were poor, paceless efforts that any dad could save.
  19. It is funny because, personally I wanted to jump on the pitch, ram those gloves up his arse and give him a damn good shaking - he was playing so cowardly. The players themselves weren't passing out wide to him because they probably knew a feeble cross would come in or he'd lose possession and from memory, his best cross was a low mis-hit effort in the second half - after he scuffed the ball and it caught the defender out. It's splitting hairs though because too many didn't turn up last night. If they put in as much fight and effort as Travis, we'd be turning teams over.
  20. It's the lethargic attacking. Pissing about knocking the ball across our own box or along the halfway line whilst the opposition reset themselves. It's nothing short of pathetic. We need to hit these teams quick, stretch them and get the ball up the other end in three - five touches - not twenty to thirty.
  21. It is Bell's work around the opposition's box I have issue with. He looks so scared to put his body on the line and incapable of putting quality balls into the box.
  22. Mowbray must simply be an idiot. He won't ever win me over. Familiar, slow, gutless approach, too long to make changes to a huffing and puffing side, Gallagher out wide is just an utterly crap idea - so we get ANOTHER predictable result against another poor team. In my view, he bottled it yet again because he was more concerned with simply not losing. I'd rather have lost that game through having a real go at Stoke. Instead, we ran the clock down for them. ...and don't get me started on the passing and Amari Bell!!!
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